Arcadia, Indiana

Arcadia, Indiana Toby Altman $14.95 Arcadia, Indiana is a mutant tragedy, a five act-sonnet sequence, staged in the trash-choked landscape of pastoral fantasy. It plays with narrative, labor, sexuality, and form, starting with a murder in an Indiana steel factory and ending with the Sphinx refusing all of Oedipus' solutions to her riddles. This play is a Renaissance tragedy in contemporary drag, destabilizing literary boundaries to develop a poetics of trash, in which the repressed and discarded parts of (literary) history return to strangle their point of origin.   Tragedy, Verse, Sonnets, Necropastoral Cast: ~12M, ~3W, ~1.7kA as of 2014 Photo by Ben Altman // Cover design by Ryan Spooner   REVIEWS Publishers Weekly   PRAISE The factories were once the future, then they became the "rustbelt," the ruins of that future, then it turned out—with the economic meltdown and the Republican power take over—that it had been the future all along. In Toby Altman's marvelously precise, vertigonous